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Saturday, November 25, 2023

Desperate Mission - Germán Cobos (1965) - Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong

Next up is another eurospy adventure film, this time a Spanish-Italian-French co-production called Desperate Mission, released in 1965 and starring Germán Cobos as "Agent Z-55" (also the name of the film when it was released in other territories), a sort of low-budget James Bond. As far as I am aware this has never been released on home video format, but thanks to Youtube you can watch it too (English dialogue as well).

The film plot is a bit convoluted but revolves around Z-55 being pulled back into service for an American Secret Service agency to pick up where a previous agent left off after being killed.

Following the opening credits we get some driving scenes filmed along Connaught Road Central. The first image below shows the old General Post Office on the left and the mail bridge that crossed the road to supply the mail boats. The camera pans right as the car goes by and we can see Edinburgh Place and City Hall in the background.

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